Celina Lee, Co-founder & CEO of Zindi, South Africa

Celina Lee calls her vision - a Disneyland for data scientists. Or if you prefer, a Github meets LinkedIn. Ultimately, it’s about creating opportunities all around the world for those who don’t necessarily have access to those opportunities.  This female co-founder and CEO started her platform as a passion project and it has become the leading professional network of data scientists today with some 70 000+ data scientists.  Zindi is the first data science competition platform in Africa and hosts an entire data science ecosystem of scientists, engineers, academics, companies, NGOs, governments and institutions focused on solving Africa’s most pressing problems.  While today’s episode is about Zindi, it is also about Celina and what it means to be female and Asian American and growing a dream that is making a tremendous impact in the world of data science, AI and machine learning. Zindi is at heart providing access and opportunities to data scientists in Africa and beyond.  For the full show notes, visit WomenpreneurAsia.com This episode is sponsored by Redbox Studio Thank you for listening to Season 8 of the podcast. We will be taking a break and come back in October/November for Season 9.